The letter--scheduled to be sent to Elias Zerhouni director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week--calls the billions spent on potential bioterror agents like plague and anthrax a "misdirection of NIH priorities" and asks Zerhouni to "take corrective action".
Then Mike says, "Before you go, can you help me clarify my priorities?" Mike then lays out his priorities and asks, "Where does this new project fit and what should move further down in my priorities?" Ninety-nine percent of the time I say, "It does not fit, all the other priorities here are more important". I love Mike's willingness to help.
Resist the temptation to mock the consulting-firm-speak ("driving the planned priorities?"), and ask yourself what's missing.
In an age when empirical data were lacking, they brought with them a different set of priorities, and asked a different set of questions.
Across the country, unions have been surveying their members to find out their priorities and asking employees to sign new union cards.
Could it perhaps be that the inclusivity of UN and world politics is directly counteractive to the imperative of pruning – of making hard, unpalatable decisions, of choosing priorities, and asking the rest to wait?
In practice, national, multilateral and NGO donors probably can't do more themselves than they do anyway, so the best way of coping with the fragmentation of aid is for recipient countries to lay down a set of national development priorities and ask donors to fit in with their plans.
After disparaging "liberal women," the senator continued his rant by insulting women's bodies, mocking their financial priorities, and asking, "if [liberal women] can afford all those piercings, tattoos, body paintings, signs, and plane tickets, then why do they want us to pay for their birth control?" I mean, is this really where we find ourselves?
The importance of involving consumers at all stages of development, through from setting priorities and asking research questions to critically reviewing research and policy has been noted [ 24, 25], and the Programme evaluated here was clearly responding to such advice.
We stressed that the Iran resolution is the USG's top priority, and asked for the GOE to oppose expected "no action" votes on the Iran and Burma resolutions, and to support all three substantive resolutions.
First one, then two, then three CEOs declared infrastructure services a top priority and asked Amazon to take a hard look at helping them with data warehousing.
